I have a website that is hit on several times a month from Mountain View, CA--is that you, and if so, why?
My website is: http://joanmacdonald.bravehost.com The site stats on my website show that every week I get several hits from Mountain View, California/see example below.. Since you have an office in Mountain View, I am wondering if Mozilla/Firefox is making these hits on my website. If so, why? Thank you, Joan Joan MacDonald
Example: Direct Hit (no referring URL) Mountain View, CA, United States IP Hidden June 18, 2016 4:28 PM
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Site stats, it's a headache. There's so much data, so many services, so many ways to slice it...
When I get a stat from someone who goes to my website from Google, it is indicated on the hit. So, maybe it is Google in disguise, but do you have any other suggestions or reasons why I would be getting these hits--I haven't counted, but probably at least 50/month.
Well, there's a difference between me visiting from a search result vs. the Googlebot coming by to check for any page updates. I don't know how that appears in your stats, or if it does.
When I look at raw logs, I see numerous entries similar to the following (the requested pages vary a lot):
66.249.73.162 - - [30/Aug/2016:07:43:38 -0400] "GET /ttw/2005/01/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11275 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
The critical part for your purposes is the IP address of the requestor: the vast majority of mine come from addresses starting with
66.249.65. 66.249.66. 66.249.69. 66.249.73. 66.249.75. 66.249.79.
These are all part of a range of addresses allocated to Google:
Net Range: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-66-249-64-0-1/pft?s=66.249.65.188
So if your stats for user agent show a lot of visits from the Googlebot, that probably explains a lot of your traffic from Mountain View.
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Hi Joan, I don't think anyone here on the support forum would be able to answer this question.
Bear in mind that a company which visits a LOT of websites is also located in Mountain View: Google. However, I don't know whether their bot's IP address tracks back to Mountain View.
I realize that there are a lot of internet companies, etc. that are located in Mountain View, including Google. When I get a stat from someone who goes to my website from Google, it is indicated on the hit. So, maybe it is Google in disguise, but do you have any other suggestions or reasons why I would be getting these hits--I haven't counted, but probably at least 50/month. It kind of skews the stats... Maybe I have to take this up with my website provider... Thank you for your help.
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Site stats, it's a headache. There's so much data, so many services, so many ways to slice it...
When I get a stat from someone who goes to my website from Google, it is indicated on the hit. So, maybe it is Google in disguise, but do you have any other suggestions or reasons why I would be getting these hits--I haven't counted, but probably at least 50/month.
Well, there's a difference between me visiting from a search result vs. the Googlebot coming by to check for any page updates. I don't know how that appears in your stats, or if it does.
When I look at raw logs, I see numerous entries similar to the following (the requested pages vary a lot):
66.249.73.162 - - [30/Aug/2016:07:43:38 -0400] "GET /ttw/2005/01/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11275 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
The critical part for your purposes is the IP address of the requestor: the vast majority of mine come from addresses starting with
66.249.65. 66.249.66. 66.249.69. 66.249.73. 66.249.75. 66.249.79.
These are all part of a range of addresses allocated to Google:
Net Range: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-66-249-64-0-1/pft?s=66.249.65.188
So if your stats for user agent show a lot of visits from the Googlebot, that probably explains a lot of your traffic from Mountain View.
Thank you for all your help. I printed out your reply and will check into your suggestions. Have a good night!